Dewey Plant - Site Maintenance Reliability Engineer

The Engineering Service Professional provides technical leadership for the lifecycle reliability of production equipment, electrical and instrumentation systems, automation, utilities, and supporting plant assets in a Process Safety Management (PSM)-regulated manufacturing environment. The position improves equipment uptime and manufacturing performance by developing preventive and predictive maintenance strategies, leading root cause failure analysis, strengthening calibration and asset-management processes, and supporting safe execution of maintenance, outage, and capital work.

This role combines hands-on troubleshooting, reliability engineering, field execution, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement. The Reliability Engineer serves as a technical resource to Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, EHS, Quality, contractors, and equipment suppliers and may provide day-to-day direction, coaching, or supervision to technicians and other maintenance resources as assigned.

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Develop, implement, and continuously improve preventive and predictive maintenance programs for mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, automation, and utility assets.

Analyze equipment history, failure modes, work-order data, condition-monitoring results, and production losses to identify reliability risks and improvement priorities.

Lead or participate in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) for significant equipment failures, recurring defects, process interruptions, and reliability events; establish and track corrective actions.

Develop equipment strategies, performance expectations, standards, procedures, inspection frequencies, and acceptance criteria based on risk, operating context, and manufacturer recommendations.

Partner with planners, schedulers, technicians, Operations, and contractors to improve job plans, maintenance execution, backlog quality, spare-parts readiness, and overall equipment effectiveness.

Support planning and execution of production-line outages, sitewide outages, turnarounds, and other high-risk maintenance activities.

Identify bad actors and obsolete or high-risk equipment; recommend repair, redesign, replacement, or capital investment solutions.

Provide technical support for complex electrical, instrumentation, motor, variable frequency drive (VFD), control-valve, actuator, PLC, HMI, and plant automation issues.

Support diagnosis, repair, specification, installation, commissioning, and performance monitoring of plant control and automation systems.

Ensure appropriate application of intrinsic-safety and explosion-proof classifications and support compliance with NFPA 70E, the National Electrical Code (NEC), local requirements, and company procedures.

Develop, maintain, and improve the plant calibration program for field instruments and critical process-control devices.

Maintain accurate P&IDs, wiring diagrams, instrument loop drawings, equipment records, tags, specifications, and related technical documentation.

Review and support electrical and control-system installations, construction activities, and project commissioning as assigned.

Provide technical expertise for chemical manufacturing processes, production equipment, industrial utilities, and plant systems.

Support troubleshooting of process, equipment, and utility performance issues to minimize downtime and restore safe, stable operation.

Evaluate and recommend process or equipment improvements that enhance safety, quality, reliability, productivity, energy performance, and cost.

Participate in process design reviews, technical risk assessments, equipment selection, and review of engineering drawings, specifications, calculations, and vendor documentation.

Ensure designs and equipment applications comply with applicable codes, standards, regulatory requirements, and company engineering practices.

Support capital projects from scope development through installation, startup, documentation, and transition to maintenance ownership.

Use the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to support asset hierarchy, work-order quality, job plans, preventive maintenance, equipment history, planning, scheduling, and work execution.

Develop, track, analyze, and communicate reliability and maintenance key performance indicators, including equipment availability, downtime, recurring failures, preventive-maintenance compliance, corrective-action closure, and other site measures.

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